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Escape the winter chill with tickets to the Gator Bowl at Jacksonville Municipal Stadium in sunny Jacksonville, Florida! The 2008 Gator Bowl will be a contest between the Virginia Cavaliers of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) and the Texas Tech Red Raiders of the Big 12 Conference. Get your Gator Bowl tickets to be there and cheer for your Texas Tech Red Raiders or your Virginia Cavaliers!

The Gator Bowl’s long and glorious history stems back to New Year's Day of 1946, when Wake Forest bested South Carolina, 26-14. In 1955, the Gator Bowl became the first collegiate bowl game to be televised coast to coast, and it has been part of America's holiday season ever since.

Still, why stay home and watch the Gator Bowl indoors, when you could head for sunny Jacksonville, Florida? See if you can pick out future NFL players from the rosters. After all, the Gator Bowl was a step in the careers of guys like Dan Marino, Michael Vick, Earl Campbell, Thurman Thomas, Archie Manning, Larry Csonka, and Peyton Manning, to name but a few. Over the decades, some 175 first-team All-Americans have participated.